Word: clingingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...likes especially the traditions, now fast fading, which cling around the College Yard. For him each one as it passes is a laurel plucked by ruthless hands from John Harvard's pate. The Houses in their crass contemporaneity he is reconciled to not by the vulgar convenience of dining-room and private shower, but purely as breeding-grounds of the traditions of the future. In the meantime he feeds his soul on what remains of times done: the charming fatuity of a raucous voice calling for "Rinehart!" and especially the Yard Concerts, which are always with...
...could actually be introduced into the American governmental system without grave disturbances. A National Board of Strategy to plan and correlate industrial enterprises would cut sharply across the duties and prerogative of existing American Institutions. When one considers how strongly those who have those duties and prerogatives will cling to them, buttressed by the system of which they are part, it is difficult to share Mr. Thomas' conviction that the change could be made without violence, especially in a country which, as he himself says, has a long tradition of violence...
...forever stirring for something better and sometimes, unknowingly, we cling to straws. We have ideas--we have opinions--and after--what? Deeds are the fruit of thought and we live in deeds, not years. Radcliffe Daily...
BROTHERS-L. A. G. Strong-Knobi ($2.50). , Along the rocky shores of the Western Highlands live hardy fishermen who catch lobsters in their naked hands, make Scotch moonshine in the veiling mists. With barnacle-like fervor they cling to the briny customs of their fathers. Silent (when sober) almost as clams, they are also prone to stew in their own juice. Peter Macrae is clever, his younger brother Fergus is strong. In all useful pursuits, fishing, seal-hunting, Fergus outstrips his brother. Peter hates him for his open disposition, his drunken glees with Captain Aeneas M'Grath, a roisterous...
...Recently Professor Walther Bothe of Giessen, Germany, bombarded the element beryllium with alpha particles. Something happened to the alpha particles. The particles contained four units of positive electricity (protons) and two of negative electricity (electrons) when they crashed into the beryllium. Two protons of an alpha particle seemed to cling to the nucleus of a beryllium atom (thereby theoretically transmuting that atom of beryllium into an atom of carbon). The particle's other two protons and the two electrons seemed changed into what Professor Bothe considered an artificial gamma ray, which like a light ray is an electromagnetic phenomenon...